Alcindar Hines

We have two new schools in our neighborhood now, a new church and new
homes, and better roads. We also have a lighted street on Quander Road.

You had a son buried on that property out there. Is he still out
there?
Yes, they put a fence around it. When they were pushing down those trees
and all over there, and cleaning up, I walked over that way and told 'em
I appreciate that.

One thing we don't have anymore is the ballfield. Remember the
ballfield? Where the Wildcats used to play? That was the name of the
baseball team that my brother-in-law, Lawrence Randall, was the manager
of. Yes, a very good team. They would go out and play other teams. He had
a young team, some of the small young boys, he called the Randaleers. He
furnished uniforms for them, bought it all his self. Field was located on
the back end of the property of the Quanders, on the Joseph Quander's
property.

My husband built this home.

The mail boxes were out by the Spring Bank Elementary School down there.
Everyone had mailboxes out there on No.1. My Daddy's oldest brother,
Robert Quander, he was the one that got this road in here named for the
family --Quander Road.

Spring Bank Elementary School was a one room school and we had first
through seventh grade. We'd have three grades in the morning and three
grades in the afternoon. We'd have arithmetic, reading, and spelling
before lunch and in the afternoon we would have English and Geography and
Hygiene. And we would have 2 recesses. At 10:30, we'd have a 15 minute
recess and we'd have one hour at 12:00 - from 12 until 1 lunch - and in
the afternoons we would have 15 minutes again, from 2:30 to a quarter of
three. We brought our lunch, you know, it wasn't served. We didn't have
no hot lunches. They had a big stove and during the winter months the
boys, the big 6th and 7th graders, being able to leave school, would go
down early in the morning to make a fire, so the room would be warm. They
carried water because we didn't have any water there. We got water next
door at my Aunt's, Miss Elizabeth Quander's home, and each person, each
child, would have their own private drinking glasses. We had 35 or 40
children.

During the winter months we had deep snows. All the men and neighbors,
they would get out and shovel snow. They'd take the horses and a big wide
board and drag the road down, so you could get in and out. Wasn't too
many automobiles in those days.

I was born and raised here, and I've seen this community and I've seen
changes made.